Failure to Appear

★ 4.4 avg 149 votes

About this book

A shattering tale of tragedy and horror from top ten New York Times bestselling author J.A. Jance.A desperate father's search for his runaway daughter has led him to the last place he ever expected to find her: backstage at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. But the murders in this dazzling world of make-believe are no longer mere stagecraft, and the blood is all too real. The hunt for his child has plunged former Seattle Homicide Detective J.P. Beaumont into a bone-chilling drama of revenge, greed, and butchery, where innocents are made to suffer in perverse and terrible ways. And many more young lives are at stake, unless he can uncover the villain of the piece before the final, deadly curtain falls.

4.4 ★★★★☆ average of 3 sources · 149 votes
Open Library 4.0 1
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Apple Books 4.5 149
Hardcover 4.5 2

Reader Profile

Enjoyment88Difficulty60Influence23Popularity35Classic33

4.4/5 · 149 readers · 376 pages · ≈ 6 h 58 m · Moderate

How long does it take to read Failure to Appear?

About ≈ 6 h 58 m — 376 pages, assuming roughly 250 words per page at 225 words per minute.Typical novel≈ 5 h 56 mFailure to Appear~6 h 58 m

How many pages is Failure to Appear?

376 pages in its most-read edition.Typical novel320Failure to Appear376

What genre is Failure to Appear?

It sits on the Mystery, Fiction shelves.

Is Failure to Appear in the public domain?

No — it is still under copyright.

Who wrote Failure to Appear?

J. A. Jance.